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Local electro rockers Five Knives will finally release their long-awaited full-length debut, Savages, June 2 though Red Bull Records. In anticipation, we caught up with the band awhile back to talk about it, and, more recently, brought you new singles “Sugar” (which also got the music video treatment) and title track “Savages.” With the album right around the…
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If you’ve been following the site, then you surely know by now that Swedish indie folk singer Kristian Matsson, better known by his stage name The Tallest Man on Earth, is set to make his headlining, full band debut at The Ryman Auditorium on May 27, with folky, soulful mother/son duo Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear tapped to open, and we…
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As we previously announced, breakout Odd Future rapper Earl Sweatshirt, celebrating the release of his excellent sophomore album, I Don’t Like Shit, I Don’t Go Outside, was set to play his first Nashville show ever earlier this month at Marathon Music Works. Due to illness, the event was unfortunately postponed, with the promise of a new date…
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Nashville’s mostly, curated Communion showcase is back tonight, May 14, at The High Watt, and this might just be one of our favorite lineups ever! Headed up by former Walkmen bassist turned impressive solo artist Peter Matthew Bauer and buzzy local up and comer firekid, along with Marty O’Reilly, Modern Inventors, and Lost Lander, the May showcase starts at 8 p.m., and tickets are…
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Last fall, enigmatic emo kings turned dark and calculated indie rockers Brand New played their first Nashville date in years (if not first ever), at War Memorial Auditorium. Ahead of their highly-anticipated and long-awaited fifth album (check out “Mene,” their first single in six years, below!), and following a high-profile Record Store Day re-release of their beloved sophomore effort Deja…
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’90s nostalgia is at an all-time high, so we’re keeping our fingers crossed for a full-on ska revival sooner than later. Until then, we’ll settle for a co-headling tour from two of the most important acts that helped revitalize and fuse the genre with punk rock two decades ago (and haven’t slowed down since), Less…
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Constantly evolving rockers The Maine have doubled down on their nostalgic, alt rock and unabashed pop tendencies on their latest release, American Candy, and TONIGHT, May 12, they’ll return to Nashville for an all ages show at Cannery Ballroom to show off some new tunes. Joining the (criminally underrated outside of the punk scene) band are pop punk revivalists Real Friends and Knuckle Puck,…
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Ahead of their outing at Atlanta’s Shaky Knees Festival, Seattle indie rockers Minus the Bear will perform a special Nashville set at 3rd & Lindsely this Saturday, May 9, in honor of the 10th anniversary of their famed 2005 sophomore release, Menos el Oso. We couldn’t be more thrilled about this one (if you haven’t listed to Menos, or haven’t…
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Out in support of their first full-length in six years, Untethered Moon, seminal Idaho indie rockers Built to Spill are sounding better than ever, and will be bringing their bombastic live show to Nashville for the first time in three years, tonight, May 7 at Exit/In, with Wooden Indian Burial Ground and Clarke and the Himselfs set to support. Tickets are still available for…
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Death Cab For Cutie w/ The Antlers The Ryman Auditorium; Nashville, TN April 29, 2015 Review by Philip Obenschain (@pobenschain). Photos by Emilia Paré. According to Wikipedia, “kintsugi” is described as “the Japanese art of fixing broken pottery with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than…